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Impact of Railroads

Notes

• Railroads = single largest business in the US

• Changed business practices forever

• Accounting• Organization• Capital

• Immigrant Labor• German & Irish

laborers from East to West

• Chinese laborers from West to East

• Development of the West• Fed Govt granted

land to Rail Co.• Rail Co. could sell

land for oil production

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Trusts + Monopolies

Notes

• Monopoly = company owning most of their competitors

• No room for competition

• No room for fair wage / prices

• Trust = Company designed to be in compliance with Anti-Monopoly laws

• Trust ‘manages’ finances for legally ‘independent’ companies

• John D. Rockefeller (1839 – 1937)

• 1863 – Rockefeller entered the Oil Refining Business

• Kerosene• Standard Oil – 1870• 1879 owned 90% of

all Refineries Summarize @ Each Page Ending


Trusts + Monopolies

Notes

• Andrew Carnegie – Steel

• Cornelius Vanderbilt & Jay Gould – Railroads

• J.P. Morgan – Banking + Finance



Electricity

Notes

• Thomas Edison

• Invented• Electric light bulb• Motion picture

camera• Phonograph• Power Grid

• Industrial research



New Immigrants

Notes

• 1776-1880• Most immigrants from

Western Europe• England• Ireland• Scotland• Germany

• Beginning 1880s• New Immigrants• Eastern + Southern

Europe• Italy• Greece• Slavonic Countries• Mid-East• Poland• Russia



New Immigrants

Notes

• Ellis Island – immigration processing center• NY

• Angel Island – immigration processing center• California

• Processing• 3-7 hours• 29 Questions• $25 fee• Name Change in some

cases



New Immigrants

Notes

• Immigrants• Overcrowding led to

nativism & crime• Increased demand for

agricultural goods• Low-wage labor available

to exploit• Cultural gains

• Opera• Polka• Pasta• Hamburgers• Frankfurters• kindergarten



Rise of OrganizedLabor

(Unions)

Notes

• Union = group of workers in an industry or profession who agree to collectively bargain

• AFL – American Federation of Labor• Samuel Gompers• Not a Socialist /

Communist• Against Striking (in

general)• Very Effective Strategies

until the G Depression



Rise of OrganizedLabor

(Unions)

Notes

• Pullman Strike• 1893• Pullman Place Car

Company• Cut Wages• Raised Rents• ARU = American Railway

Union • Pres Eugene Debs

• President Grover Cleveland = Broke Strike using Military• Debs arrested



WestwardExpansion

Notes

• Battle of Little Big Horn• Sitting Bull – Lakota• George Custer – US• Custer attacks natives• Natives encircle &

slaughter US troops

• Sitting Bull• Ghost Dance• Shot for refusing to stop

dance

• Wounded Knee• Sitting Bull’s followers

retreat to sacred territory• Massacred by US Army


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